A Few Thoughts

[Stealth Hunter]

Exactly 232 years ago, the Constitution was signed. At that time, your average black man was a slave on a plantation here in America.

Just 42 years ago, a black man could not drink out of the same fountain as a white man.

Now, a black man has been made president. Some said it could never be done, but now, now they've been proven wrong.

[baggygreen]

Given that there was a thread a few months back stating that white americans would be a majority, I'd have said it was only a matter of time?

[Onkel Neal]

Exactly 232 years ago, the Constitution was signed. At that time, your average black man was a slave on a plantation here in America.

Just 42 years ago, a black man could not drink out of the same fountain as a white man.

Now, a black man has been made president. Some said it could never be done, but now, now they've been proven wrong.

Uh, he's only half-black. Why do people keep forgetting his mother, who raised him, was white?

[Stealth Hunter]

But he's still black...

Part black, but still black.

[Onkel Neal]

But he's still black...

Part black, but still black.

Huh? That's part true but all false.

[CCIP]

Well let's turn it this way:

Do you really think that even a few decades ago, someone of that skin colour would've gotten in? I don't think so. And I think in the case, this really does mean something.

[TarJak]

I take the point of the thread as saying how far the US has come in 200 odd years, but surely the mans skin pigmentation should never be an issue?

[Stealth Hunter]

Aw, the hell with it. You people are missing my point.

[Onkel Neal]

There was a point? (Just kidding)

But we still have not had:

Our first woman president
Our first gay president
Our first Mormon president
Our first Mexican president
Our first Terminator president
Our first Suzuki riding president
Our first Subsim player president
Our first polygamist president
Our first atheist president


OMG, America has a long way to go!

[stabiz]

The gay, polygamist, atheist and terminator parts are hard to prove.:)

Actually, all those are hard to prove!

[Stealth Hunter]

I take the point of the thread as saying how far the US has come in 200 odd years, but surely the mans skin pigmentation should never be an issue?

You win a cookie.:ping:

[Onkel Neal]

The gay, polygamist, atheist and terminator parts are hard to prove.:)

Actually, all those are hard to prove!

heh, the Terminator part is a reference to Swchartznegger :)

[stabiz]

Hehe, I know, but there might have been a terminator in office allready, maybe sent from the future to ensure ... uhm ... research in ... uhm ... terminatory areas. We all know that people in the future spend almost no time at all in their own time.:)

[Onkel Neal]

Ha ha. Stabiz, don't you ever leave this forum. :up:

[stabiz]

Soon.:p

[August]

There was a point? (Just kidding)

But we still have not had:

Our first woman president
Our first gay president
Our first Mormon president
Our first Mexican president
Our first Terminator president
Our first Suzuki riding president
Our first Subsim player president
Our first polygamist president
Our first atheist president

You mean elect a gay Mormon woman of Mexican heritage who rides a rice burner when she's not playing subsims on the computer with her four "wives"?

Hmmm, well, as long as she's not a terminator robot, or worse, an athiest she's got my vote. As long as she's not anti-gun i mean...

[Onkel Neal]

Oy, you just topped Stabiz in one throw!

[jpm1]

yes but talking about black when seing a black man always seemed disturbing to me he's black and what is he human or not .? maybe that comes from a suppressed culpability feeling of the European (from where the americans also come from) towards the africans and what happened with the slavery

[caspofungin]

he's just as white as he is black.

[nikimcbee]

needs more cowbell.

[Skybird]

Exactly 232 years ago, the Constitution was signed. At that time, your average black man was a slave on a plantation here in America.

Just 42 years ago, a black man could not drink out of the same fountain as a white man.

Now, a black man has been made president. Some said it could never be done, but now, now they've been proven wrong.

Uh, he's only half-black. Why do people keep forgetting his mother, who raised him, was white?
Ah, he's a tanned German. :sunny:

[Skybird]

A German TV comedian, Harald Schmidt:

"Now they talk of that the race barrier has fallen in America. But I don't get it. I mean it is like this: George Bush, a white, has left chaos behind, and now comes a black man and must do the clean-up."

And the same guy:

"It may be that Obama has great ideas about Iraq. But from that Sadadam Hussein won't become alive again either."

:lol:

[Catfish]

Hello,

"Now they talk of that the race barrier has fallen in America. But I don't get it. I mean it is like this: George Bush, a white, has left chaos behind, and now comes a black man and must do the clean-up."

:huh: :o Priceless !!
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Greetings,
Catfish

[Rilder]

There was a point? (Just kidding)

But we still have not had:

Our first woman president
Our first gay president
Our first Mormon president
Our first Mexican president
Our first Terminator president
Our first Suzuki riding president
Our first Subsim player president
Our first polygamist president
Our first atheist president
Our first Hellenic-Pagan president

OMG, America has a long way to go!

Added one.

VOTE FOR RILDER IN 2028!

[Digital_Trucker]

Now if we could only elect a government that would get their heads out of their a55es and do what's right for the country instead of themselves:damn:

[Hanomag]

Exactly 232 years ago, the Constitution was signed. At that time, your average black man was a slave on a plantation here in America.






Hey this is somewhat off topic and pre constitution...but weren't 1st slaves in America white? And sold in Jamestown? Can anyone confirm this? Besides long since deceased slave traders..

[Digital_Trucker]

Can't vouch for the right or left leaning tendency of the reference, but

http://www.revisionisthistory.org/forgottenslaves.html

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/white_slavery.htm

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/whtslav.htm

http://newsfromthewest.blogspot.com/2008/10/suppressed-history-white-slavery-in.html

[Hanomag]

"There were hundreds of thousands of Scots sold into slavery during Colonial America. White slavery to the American Colonies occurred as early as 1630 in Scotland."


"A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had ever been estimated before."


Whoa.. I had no idea. :o

[Buddahaid]

In Africa Obama is considered white. Also, let's not forget that many African slaves were sold by African warlords to the slavers. Africa is still tearing itself apart in similar fashion, and I would expect a defeated tribe, or whatever political distinction you want, would still be sold instead of slaughtered if there were buyers.

I am constantly reminded by how much gangland attitudes resemble the genocide wars plaguing the area.

Humanity has so far to go I doubt we will get there. These things must be hardwired survival responses we have yet to control.

Buddahaid